A Gnani uses love and compassion for practical purpose but he is fully aware they are not of any use to realize the truth hidden by ignorance.+

People believe that a Guru or mystic, or priest, has got so many followers and, therefore, there must be some truth in their teaching, which is a common fallacy accepted by the masses due to their inherited samskara or conditioning. It proves that only the ignorant can find many greater ignorant to follow him.

The path of love and humanism is the religious path. The path of love and humanism is not the Atmic path.

The path of love and humanism is very valuable in practical life in the dualistic world. The path of love and humanism is not the Atmic path. The Atma is God in truth, one without a second. In Atmic reality, there is no second thing that exists other than Atma, which is God in truth.

First, Mundaka - Chapter 2 (10):~ Ignorant fools, regarding sacrifices and humanitarian works as the highest, do not know any higher good. Having enjoyed their reward on the heights of heaven, gained by good works, they enter again this world or a lower one.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ In this state, a father is no father, a mother no mother, Gods no Gods, no Vedas. In this state, a thief is no thief, the killer of a noble Brahmana no killer, a monk no monk, a hermit no hermit. This form of his is untouched by good work and untouched by evil work, for he is then beyond all the woes of his intellect. ~(4.3.22)

Many Gurus, instead of encouraging seekers to seek the truth, inject their own theories, keep them in a state of talking love and compassion, which belongs to the dualistic illusion. It is the escape mechanism and makes the seeker hopeless, helpless, and lazy to seek the truth he is seeking.

A Gnani uses love and compassion for the practical purpose, but he is fully aware that they are not of any use to realize the truth hidden by the dualistic illusion (universe).

Love and compassion are needed in practical life within the practical world. However, from the ultimate standpoint, the practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion. In Atmic reality, there is only the invisible Soul, the one without the Second.

The seeker of truth must know for his own information that the truth in God is not the religious God, which they believe and worship. The beliefs propagated by the religion of their individualized God are superstition. Such Gods have no place in truth.

There is no need to condemn those who believe and follow. Until ignorance dominates, they will not be swayed from their inherited belief.

Everyone is free to follow their chosen path, which makes them happy and gives them satisfaction. Ishopanishad:~ "They are steeped in ignorance and sunk into the greatest depth of misery who worship the matter, instead of the All-Pervading God, and those who worship things born of matter like trees, animals, man, etc., are sunk deeper in misery."

When Upanishads itself says they are steeped in ignorance and sunk into the greatest depth of misery who worships the matter, instead of the All-Pervading God (Atman) and those who worship things born of matter (illusion) are sunk deeper in misery then why worship God in place of the real God., which is Ataman.

The dualistic worship of personal “Gods” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the Self. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists. The Vedas confirm that God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

How can you worship God? That implies two ~ the worshiper and the worshiped, whereas God is nondual. One can worship his idea of God only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as apart.

When Upanishads and Vedas declare that “God is the form of the Athma, and God is indeed Athma itself,” then why accept another God in place of the Atman or worship anything other than the Atman?

Why worship and glorify the Gurus and Yogis (human form) in place of God when Veda bars such activities and it also warns people who indulge in such activities are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.

Vedas bar human worship: ~

Yajurveda:~

Translation:~

"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time."- (Yajurveda 40:9.)

Sage Sankara says:~ VC- v6~ Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal Gods be propitiated---yet, without the realization of one‘s identity With the Self, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together.

The seeker of truth has to accept the truth as God and reject the untruth. The Atman, the real God alone, is, and all else is an illusion created out of the Atman, the only God. Atmic path is a very personal path.

Without an intense urge, no one can tread this path. It cannot be forced on religious people. Moreover, religious people are not fit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

It is no use to argue on the base of inherited religious dogmatism. All religions and their theories are myths and dogmatic. There is no difference between religious belief and superstition. Religious belief is superstition, and the superstitions are religious beliefs. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar